Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy
(14 March 1844 – 30 January 1881 / London)
Ode
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.